"Ready or Not" I'm going to try to put something in today. The JNDI stuff is the part that hasn't been fully worked out yet, but the part that creates the BV Factory should be there by the end of the day.

I did a snapshot release of the BV deployers and integrated into Branch_5_x.

Current State of things:* The BV Factory is created and added to the DeploymentUnit by the BV deployer* The BV Factory from the DeploymentUnit is added to application scope for use by JSF. JSF/BV integration is working.* The BV Factory is bound to global JNDI at /BeanValidatorFactories/<DeploymentUnit.getSimpleName()>

We know the JNDI part is wrong, so there will be changes. But hopefully those of you waiting on this stuff can now make further progress.

I've tried out the getting the ValidatorFactory from the DeploymentUnit, however, I'm running into a problem, which *I think* is probably a bug, but I'm happy to be convinced otherwise :-)

If you have an EAR, the current deployer attaches the ValidatorFactory to the relevant modules of the EAR (e.g. war, ejb jars), and not to the top-level-deployment-unit (the EAR itself). I think it should (also) be attached to the top level deployment unit, because the ValidatorFactory is an application wide instance, not a per-module instance. Adding this to the deployer solves it: